Cloth-piling machine, track and wheel mounting



Sept 2 1924.

M. L. SHAPERA CLOTH FILING MACHINE, TRACK AND WHEEL MOUNTING Filed March 16. 1923 .P mw N5 T W Wu R3 m M A TTORNEYS.

Fatented gent. 2, 19234.

UNITED STATES MOB-BIS L. SHAPERA, OF MUNGIE, INDIANA.

CLUJZH-PILING IVER-SHINE, TRACK AND WHEEL MOUNTING.

Application. filed. March 16, 1923. Serial No. 625,674.

. March 9, 1915, and particularly to the improvement thereof.

The chief object of the present invention is to improve one portion of the aforesaid machine so that cloth will be piled by the same in an improved manner.

The chief feature of the invention consists in the adjustable mounting of the supporting wheels included in the machine and associated with the cloth receiving table and trackway.

The full nature of the invention will be understood from the accompanying drawings and the following description and claims.

In the drawings Fig. 1 is aside eleva tional view of a cloth receiving table, the cloth piling machine, and a trackway for supporting the same in adjuxtaposition to the table. Fig. 2 is an enlarged end view of a wheel mounting and the wheel. Fig. 3 is a side view of the wheel and a portion of the mounting. Fig. 4 is an end view of a portion of the machine shown in Fig. 1.

In the drawings there is illustrated one form of a machine substantially similar to that described in my prior Patent No. 1.131.647, dated March 9, 1915, and in said machine there is provided a cloth receiving base or support '10 supported upon a frame work indicated generally by the numeral 11, and said framework supports a cloth manip ulating construction indicated generally by the numerals 12, 13 and 14:. The framework 11 includes a depending bar 15, suitably secured to said frame as at 16. In order to provide clearance beneath the machine, there is provided another depending bar 17 in spaced relation with the bar to form a yoke construction in which is mounted a supporting wheel 18. From Figs. 1 and it it will be noted that there are provided four supporting wheels in paired relation, and between said wheels there is positioned a table 19, adjacent the sides of which are secured the parallel supports 20 to which in turn is secured the plate-forming track 21. Associated with one of said pairs of wheels is the sprocket wheel 22 and chain 23 driven by a sprocket gear mounted upon a power shaft 24:.

To take up wear between the wheels and track, and chiefly to adjust the wheel 18 longitudinally within its yoke construction to compensate for warping of the table and for any other necessities, there is provided an adjustable mounting for supporting said wheel 18 within the yoke construction 1517. Herein one arm, and preferably the arm 17 is threaded at 25 to receive the threaded end 26 of an axle member or spindle 27 which is secured in the other arm 15 of the yoke by the nut 28. Rotatably supported upon said spindle is an exteriorly threaded sleeve 29, and said exteriorly threaded sleeve 29 is shorter in length than the distance between the spaced arms 15 and 17 of the yoke construction. The hub of the wheel 18 is rigidly secured to the sleeve 29 in any suitable manner, or may be formed integral therewith. Upon each end of the sleeve 29, there is provided a collar 30 which acts as a locking and thrust collar, and said collar is interiorly threaded so as to be re ceivable upon the threaded sleeve 29. The collar 30 is provided with the 31, and between said ears said collar is slotted. As sociated with the slotted cars is a locking bolt 32, whereby the collar may be clamped upon the sleeve in the adjusted position.

From the foregoing it will be understood that each wheel may be adjusted in its yoke support by loosening both bolts 32 of both clamping collars, and thereafter threading one clamping collar upon the threaded. sleeve. in one direction, and the other in the opposite direction, and by securing said ollars when in the adjusted position by the clamping bolts. In this manner all of the wheels upon the carriage may be adjusted laterally upon the spindles or axles so as to eliminate the spaces caused by the wear between the wheels and the track, or by the warping of the table. There is also provided for protection an angle guard 33 which has one portion positioned beneath the track 21 and the other portion suitably secured to the bar 15 by the bolt 34.

1. A wheel mounting including inyconibinatlon a pan of spaced supports, an axle,

supported thereby, a hub rotatably sup ported upon said axle and having oppositely extending threaded ends, and thrust and locking nuts associated with each end of the hub for adjustably spacing the Wheel hub Within said supports;

2. A Wheel mounting including an axle, a pair of spaced supports therefor, a Wheel associated with the ends of said sleeve for adj ustably positioning said sleeve Within the supports. and simultaneously preventing lateral movement of the sleeve between said supports.

In Witness whereof, I have hereunto af 20 fixed my signature. a

MORRIS L; SHAPERA. 

